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Smithsonian - Airbus IMAX Theater

14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway, Chantilly, VA 20151

Movieline: 1-(202)-633-IMAX

Website: https://www.si.edu/theaters/airbus

Sinners: The IMAX Experience (R)

Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld
Runtime: 2 hr. 17 mins.

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

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Blue Angels: The IMAX Experience (G)

Runtime: 1 hr. 33 mins.

The Blue Angels have been enthralling people, across the country and around the globe, for more than 75 years. Now, Amazon MGM Studios and IMAX bring a brand new documentary The Blue Angels - that will take audiences soaring with the Navy's elite Flight Demonstration Squadron as never before. Filmed for IMAX, the immersive footage puts you in the cockpit for a firsthand view of the Blue Angels' precision flying, while the aerial shots deliver a spectacular showcase of the breathtaking maneuvers that have made them the world's premier jet team.The Blue Angels also takes audiences behind the scenes for a revealing, in-depth look at what it takes to become a Blue Angel - from the careful selection process to the challenging training regimen, and on through the demanding eight-month show season.The film is a fitting tribute to the extraordinary teamwork, passion and pride of the hundreds of outstanding men and women of the Navy and Marine Corps who have had the honor to serve in the Blue Angels squadron...past, present and future.

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Deep Sky ()

Cast: Michelle Williams
Runtime: 45 mins.

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Aircraft Carrier: Guardian of the Seas ()



The mission to protect and defend the world's oceans has become far more complex and challenging in recent years, and naval aviation has become increasingly vital to success. One of the greatest engineering feats in history, the modern U.S. nuclear carrier is a masterpiece of technology, and the flagship of the fleet. With RIMPAC, the world's largest and most comprehensive international maritime training exercise providing a stunning visual context for the story, find yourself aboard the carrier alongside the 5,000 highly skilled sea and air personnel conducting flight operations in the midst of the simulated war exercises taking place there. Rarely has there been a topic so visually suited and compelling for IMAX® and other giant screen theaters.

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Journey to Space ()

Cast: Christian Gardner, Gabrielle Gardner
Runtime: 45 mins.

NASA's next era will be its greatest yet. That is the clear "roadmap" painted by Journey To Space. The film showcases the exciting plans NASA and the space community are working on, and the challenges they must overcome to carry out audacious missions.

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Space: The New Frontier ()

Cast: Chris Pine
Runtime: 40 mins.

An entire generation came of age with the indescribable awe of landing on the Moon - and the ensuing Golden Age of Space has changed our world forever for the better. More than 50 years later, what is the next step for humankind? A second golden age of space has quietly dawned on us, with new hope for humanity as a spacefaring species. In the quest to make human spaceflight accessible within in a decade, not a century, and ultimately affordable to ordinary citizens, leading innovators, entrepreneurs, engineers, and daredevils are locked in a race into the unknown. From self-assembling habitats, commercial space stations, launching rockets without fuel to building the Lunar Gateway to deep space, history is in the making as we speak. Space: The New Frontier captures a time as epic as the Giant Screen, and as real as our present moment. Come aboard: life on earth or in space will not be the same again.

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To Fly! ()

Cast: Ellen Bry
Runtime: 27 mins.

A stunning overview of transportation and flight in America, To Fly! thrills audiences as its imagery engulfs them in the sensations of flying from floating in a helium balloon to flying in an original barnstormer bi-plane to hang gliding across the sky.

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